white space Is…Prompt #1

Marguerite Hemmings, featuring Babay L. Angles and Orlando Hunter

Fill in the blank: white space is __________ .

Feel free to go on a roll.

Interviewer: White space is, and then fill in the blank. You can go back and forth, let’s give it a full minute.(Interviewees laugh)Interviewer: How many cycles can you make it through?Babay L. Angles: Let’s do it. White space is.Orlando Hunter: White space is these lights, honey, blinding me.Babay: White space is isolating. Silent. Not telling you to your face.Orlando: Uncomfortable. Minnesota nice.(Laughter)Babay: White space is exhausting.Orlando: White space is…Babay: Not necessary to doing this healing work?Orlando: Is not necessary.Babay: Is not necessary.In unison: No, it’s not necessary, no no.(Laughter)Orlando: Absolutely not.Babay: No, you’re right.